32.Jurisdiction of Rent Court and Rent Tribunal, - Notwithstanding any-
thing contained in any other law for the time being in force, in the areas to
which this Act extends, only the Rent Court and no Civil Court shall have
jurisdiction, to hear and decide the applications relating to disputes between
landlord and tenant and matters connected with and Rent ancillary thereto
covered under this Act:
Provided that the Rent Court shall, in deciding such applications
relating to tenancies and premises, give due regard to the provisions of the
Transfer of Property Act, 1882(Act 4 of 1882), the Indian Contract Act,
1872(Act 9 of 1872) or any other substantive law applicable to such matter
in the same manner, in which such law would have been applied had the
dispute been brought before a Civil Court by way of suit.
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